Deep Fakes and Liar's Dividend

[Dill]

(10-22-2018, 03:29 PM)Au165 Wrote: I spent a whole day explaining to my high school team I coach that "News" did not stand for Noteworthy events, weather and sports. It was a popular post shared on the internet and they all immediately believed it to be true because it made sense from the explanation. It seems what the internet has done is allow people to be sold with more thorough, even though wrong, explanations that would require further investigation to prove wrong so many simply believe it to be true because it sounds believable.

Basically everyone assumes someone else vetted the information before relaying it to them so they take it as true. Ironically enough this used to be what we relied on actual news reporting to do before it got confused with the mishmash of click bait.

It's impossible to vet everything. And you have to (at least provisionally) trust some things while vetting others.

This was manageable 30 years ago. But the flood of competing information claims and realistic-looking websites makes it more difficult.

I keep meeting younger folks in their late teens and early 20s who think it's all fake, or at least claim to trust no one news source any more than any other.  That is bad.